The Twitch Community Tackles Zelda In New Crowd-Played Stream

After the massive success of Twitch plays Pokémon, you knew others were coming. Someone has set up a stream for players to tackle the original Zelda.

Like the Pokémon stream (which is still going strong), Twitch chat users enter commands like a, b, up, down, left, and right in order to control Link. It differs from Pokémon in a few key ways. Link has infinite bombs, and infinite health, and the start button is disabled.

Twitch user Zach Gerlock set up the stream, and explains why there is no start button saying, "Unfortunately, this game would be completely ruined if any player could
use the start button. The animation is very long, and the only way to
unpause is to press the start button again. We would spend the vast
majority of our time in the menu." Gerlock is confident that the first four dungeons can be completed with just the bomb and sword, and plans on switching out items manually if the stream is able to make it further than that.

The stream has been live for about five hours, and unsurprisingly, not much progress has been made.

I'm a massive Pokemon fan, but I could not sit for more than a few minutes watching the thing. I just have no interest in the thing at all. And, unlike Pokemon, Zelda is going to fail so horribly because it works in real time and not turn-based. Can't wait for this fad to blow over.

Pokemon was enough....if this keeps up everyone else's streams will suffer just to keep up these ones running. The Pokemon one was an interesting, but has been going on for far too long now and the stupid trolls don't help with start spamming.

I don't get why this is becoming a new internet fad. Do people really enjoy sitting there watching characters walk in circles for 20 minutes before making the slightest bit of progression only to have another half hour of walking in circles?

I watched the pokemon one for about ten minutes yesterday and am dumbfounded by why anyone thinks this is interesting or amusing. NOTHING HAPPENS! In those ten minutes the character took one step left and opened and closed the menu forty or so times. Inspiring stuff internet!

A lot of people on here complaining about the "Twitch Plays" stuff, and I'm just sorta confused. I mean, I get it if it isn't your cup of tea, but why complain about its existence?
Personally, I love it because it's so amusing. The fact that 100,000 people together are worse at a game than one person by themselves is hilarious. There's been so many great moments, from the release of Charmeleon to the defeat of Giovanni, and at the end of the day the best part is that despite how slow it is, they are still managing to advance through the game. Don't look at it as an extremely slow playthrough of the game, look at it as something completely new that we've never seen before - co-op multiplayer between thousands of people.